Can you switch EVERY explorer window, as in My Computer, etc., to do this?
Ermmm, maybe, but Microsoft are currently involved in a very big trial about this at this very moment (you may have heard of it - if not do a search for 'Microsoft' 'Antitrust' and 'comingling'). Bill says it's impossible. Nine of the US states say it isn't.
Did you read the article ? He's going to be talking about (and demonstrating) playing DVD's he bought in the UK on a US DVD player.
It's a large stretch to cast him as a 'pirate' just for doing that. Challenging an unjust law is not 'childish' as you suggest. Do you consider those who threw tea into the Boston river 'childish' as well ?
Do not panic. Your brain has been rebooted and fitted with a new Palladium biochip. Please do not attempt to view or listen to any unauthorised copyright material, otherwise it may implode again.
So a few newspaper sites are now charging for subscriptions. Big deal. Just go somewhere else to read your news, that's the whole point of the net, almost limitless choices.
Makes me glad I live in Europe. We don't have this software patent madness here (despite the efforts of certain lobbying groups), so I can feel reasonably safe that any software I develop is OK, as long as I don't copy code directly.
IMO, the software industry has *already* collapsed in the US due to patent issues, and is one of the major reasons for the prolonged tech recession over there.
Put them on hold for ten minutes, and then pick up the phone again and tell them to go away. That way you have cost them 10 minutes of phone time as well.
You make it sound like the two things are incompatible. Personally, I read Slashdot, UserFriendly makes me laugh when I read it, I do have a fondness for Monty Python and I'll occasionally compile a Linux kernel. However I also go out a lot and I enjoy social situations.
How about a Sports section, or a columnist who deals with issues that everyone cares about, like taxes?
This is Slashdot, News for Nerds. If you want to discuss sports or taxes, why not read kuro5hin or any of the multitude of other sites out there that do cover topics like those ?
Whilst I would agree normally, if they were truly public lands then they would be usable by everybody. In this case, the public land in question is demarcated for the sole use of car drivers (before you mention cyclists, very very little provision is made for cyclists - cycling in London is downright dangerous).
So, you could think of this as a fee not for using public land, but rather for having that land reserved for cars. I would hope that the money collected would be spent on improving public transport, so that those who are inconvenienced by this land use are properly compensated.
Personally, although I run KDE, I still like the gnome system manager. It runs with no problems under KDE, as long as you have gnome libs installed too.
Given M$'s current plans for software rental, it will be more likely that, halfway through editting a Word document, a message will pop up like:
'Your annual fee for using Windows XP has expired. Click OK to send us another $200 to renew your licence. If you click cancel, Office will shut down, and you will have to activate XP again.'
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You sir, are an idiot for posting that.
So most of the artists on the site are there illegally...
Therein lies the problem. AG never actually *hosted* any of the artists they got sued for, they just allowing people to SEARCH FOR OTHER MACHINES WHICH DID HOST THEM. The RIAA apparently didn't care about that, even given that AG wasn't actually hosting the vast majority of the music - they (the RIAA) forced them to shut down their search of *everything*, including ARTISTS WHO ARE NOT SIGNED BY THE RIAA !!
Get it through your head that AG wasn't doing anything wrong, they were just acting as a search engine, the same as google or yahoo, but only for files whose last four characters happened to be '.mp3' !
MS had better not drop support for the OS as long as it is viable, damnit. We bought it so we will use it for as long as we need to. We *had to* upgrade from Win95 when they played that card (they offered to support it but each incident was going to be $150k up front).
Why are you complaining ? Microsoft are constantly pulling stunts like these. There are plenty of decent alternatives these days. If you don't like what Microsoft are doing, just switch to something else.
Malthus claimed that food production increases arithmetically, whereas population increases exponentially. Thus he foresaw a problem occuring.
However, he didn't consider the effect of technology, which increases as an exponential of an exponential (i.e an exponential increase in the number of scientists, and for each scientist an exponential increase in what they can achieve).
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Ermmm, maybe, but Microsoft are currently involved in a very big trial about this at this very moment (you may have heard of it - if not do a search for 'Microsoft' 'Antitrust' and 'comingling'). Bill says it's impossible. Nine of the US states say it isn't.
It's a large stretch to cast him as a 'pirate' just for doing that. Challenging an unjust law is not 'childish' as you suggest. Do you consider those who threw tea into the Boston river 'childish' as well ?
Do not panic. Your brain has been rebooted and fitted with a new Palladium biochip. Please do not attempt to view or listen to any unauthorised copyright material, otherwise it may implode again.
Because it won't fit on 1 CD. Maybe on a DVD it might.
Well, I managed to get to the site, but I got a 404 in morse code...
It means in the next issue they will have:
The Cult of Microsoft (7 of 9).
IMO, the software industry has *already* collapsed in the US due to patent issues, and is one of the major reasons for the prolonged tech recession over there.
FWIW, there is a petition you can sign if you want to see the source code to Blender opened up. It's here.
Yeah I am sure that will prove very popular with people who live outside the US.
How about a Sports section, or a columnist who deals with issues that everyone cares about, like taxes?
This is Slashdot, News for Nerds. If you want to discuss sports or taxes, why not read kuro5hin or any of the multitude of other sites out there that do cover topics like those ?
I know what my answer is, and it ain't the 95%.
Oh, but of course, this thing will run Linux, and we can't be helping people like that, can we.
Whilst I would agree normally, if they were truly public lands then they would be usable by everybody. In this case, the public land in question is demarcated for the sole use of car drivers (before you mention cyclists, very very little provision is made for cyclists - cycling in London is downright dangerous).
So, you could think of this as a fee not for using public land, but rather for having that land reserved for cars. I would hope that the money collected would be spent on improving public transport, so that those who are inconvenienced by this land use are properly compensated.
'Your annual fee for using Windows XP has expired. Click OK to send us another $200 to renew your licence. If you click cancel, Office will shut down, and you will have to activate XP again.'
So most of the artists on the site are there illegally...
Therein lies the problem. AG never actually *hosted* any of the artists they got sued for, they just allowing people to SEARCH FOR OTHER MACHINES WHICH DID HOST THEM. The RIAA apparently didn't care about that, even given that AG wasn't actually hosting the vast majority of the music - they (the RIAA) forced them to shut down their search of *everything*, including ARTISTS WHO ARE NOT SIGNED BY THE RIAA !!
Get it through your head that AG wasn't doing anything wrong, they were just acting as a search engine, the same as google or yahoo, but only for files whose last four characters happened to be '.mp3' !
Why are you complaining ? Microsoft are constantly pulling stunts like these. There are plenty of decent alternatives these days. If you don't like what Microsoft are doing, just switch to something else.
Malthus claimed that food production increases arithmetically, whereas population increases exponentially. Thus he foresaw a problem occuring.
However, he didn't consider the effect of technology, which increases as an exponential of an exponential (i.e an exponential increase in the number of scientists, and for each scientist an exponential increase in what they can achieve).
Because, consumer, you might try to distribute it without the commercials, thus depriving the broadcasters of their rightful income.
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